Category: Society
Colombian pilots fly through storms in decrepit planes over the jungle to deliver food and goods to villagers isolated from the rest of the world.It is one of the most perilous air routes in the world. Jumping off [...]
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Category: Nature
Professor Iain Stewart explores the influence of water, examining 6,000-year-old rock engravings that suggests the Sahara desert was once a much more hospitable place. He also traces the cycle of fresh water, [...]
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Category: History
Speculating on what the future may hold for the continent. As human habitation spreads across Europe, the wildlife has had to adapt or perish. The programme examines which species have thrived and which suffered, [...]
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Category: History
The impact of human activity on the continent's ecology and landscape over the past 10,000 years, during which animals were tamed, seeds planted, forests felled and minerals excavated. Plus, how diseases affected [...]
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Category: Science
Archaeologist Guillermo Cock investigates whether the Incas rose up against the invading Spaniards in 1532 using mercenaries and guerrilla warfare, a possibility that would put into doubt the standard account of [...]
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Category: History
In this fascinating feature-length documentary historian Bettany Hughes continues her history of the Ancient World with a visit to Crete to recount one of the greatest archaeological discoveries ever made. The [...]
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Category: History
Three cities dominated the ancient world: Athens, Rome and a third, now almost forgotten. It lies hidden beneath the waters of the Mediterranean and a sprawling modern metropolis. Alexandria was a city built on a [...]
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Category: History
Belief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement. Here Clark visits Tintern Abbey, the Alps, [...]
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Category: History
Visiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua, other centres of (Renaissance) [...]
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Category: History
In the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th century. He traces it from its first manifestations in the Cluny Abbey to its high point, the building of Chartres [...]
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Category: Art and Artists
This Is Modern Art was a series written and presented by the English art critic Matthew Collings. The series won several awards including a BAFTA. It became popular both because of its sometimes jokey [...]
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Category: History
In this 90-minute documentary, Rageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning. Rageh travels across [...]
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Category: History
It's one of the greatest stories ever told. The legend of Helen of Troy has enchanted audiences for the last three thousand years. In May this year a Hollywood film staring Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom will be [...]
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Category: Science
Geologist Dr Iain Stewart shows how the rocks beneath our feet have shaped the history of the Mediterranean. In this series he takes us on a tour of the Med and shows us how geology is behind everything from the [...]
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Category: Society
Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is an award winning Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Soderberg. It looks at the [...]
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Category: History
The Lost Civilisation of Peru The rise and fall of the 'Greeks of the Andes'. Programme transcript Two thousand years ago a mysterious and little known civilization ruled the northern coast of Peru. Its people [...]
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